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Shauna Johnson: At West Virginia University, mountaineers go first. Being recognized for exceptional research activity, West Virginia University has once again been reaffirmed as an R-1 University, the highest possible research ranking from the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Fred King is the university's vice president for research.
Fred King: The Carnegie classification looks at the overall research productivity of higher education institutions. And so for WVU what it means is that we're being classified as one of the leading research institutions in the United States.
Shauna Johnson: One of the leading institutions, producing research, providing hands-on learning, and propelling graduate and undergraduate students into meaningful careers to solve real-world problems.
Fred King: Because we're the state's Premier Land-Grant University, we have all the disciplines here really. So that means that students can work up at health sciences, they could do fundamental neuroscience work, they can work over in astrophysics utilizing the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. They have a range of opportunities to use modern equipment to work with leaders in the field that you just can't duplicate at other kinds of institutions beyond the R-1.
Shauna Johnson: As the only R-1 university in the mountain state, WVU is an economic driver, contributing nearly $5 billion to the region's economy each year while serving students along with West Virginia, the country, and the world.
Fred King: Research is part and parcel of what we do, both in terms of education and in terms of service. Those are our missions as a land-grant, research, service, teaching. And I think at the end of the day, everyone at West Virginia University understands that everything we do is about the student, and how we can best prepare the student, so once they leave the university, they have a very successful life, and are afforded opportunities they wouldn't otherwise have been afforded.
Shauna Johnson: So let's, go follow our stories at wvutoday.wvu.edu.
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